KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, February 2nd, 2020

[As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Santa Clara, California again.]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Nancy Pelosi: I don't want to see him impeached – i want to see him in jail.

Quotation #2 ~ Nick Hornby: I have always been accused of taking the things i love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously and i do feel a kind of anger when i hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me.

Would you like to earn an extra $400 (U.S!) a month? There was an ad this morning which had a great suggestion for you. You can sell your plasma through BioLife Plasma Services! It's https://pub.s1.exacttarget.com/jdnqse3qecm if you're interested. I must admit i was stunned when i heard that – such a thing is unheard-of here (and highly illegal) in Canada but then, our two great countries are so similar yet so different. (For one thing, Canada isn't the laughing stock of the world these days, but that's another story and i usually try to avoid politics.) One more thing about the all-important ads before i move on to the secondary subject of the music – still no appearance of Bart Inman. I was listening to KSHE at work on Saturday morning and his ad appeared. Maybe he just no longer sponsors the Klassics Show? (I like his voice a lot but there have been lots of snide comments about his drawl on the Klassics Show's Facebook page, maybe that's why?)

I haven't listened in some years, but at one time i would occasionally go to an online station called St Louis Classic Rock (www.slcr.tv). They prided themselves on how long they could go without repeating a track (the last time i visited, they were up to well over 5000 songs) and this meant, necessarily, that a lot of what they played was pretty obscure. In far too many instances, that obscurity was deserved! I was thinking about as i listened to this morning's program: a boatload of very obscure tracks. Most of them were okay, i hasten to add; there was only one track that really annoyed me, and i'm on record as stating that pretty much everything Eric Burdon recorded after about 1966 is utter wankery. The outro to the song – probably about a minute long but it seemed much longer – himself grunting “i'm-a” and “oyah” “please-ah” over and over nearly did my nut in.

I almost graded the show a “B+” -- very little that i loved (Jimi Hendrix, Wishbone Ash) and just mostly all right, and then, in the last half hour ... one of Dan Fogelberg's most beautiful songs, and Dan automatically means an “A+,” and that song, i love it so much it brought a.... Oh, no it didn't! I had something in my eye, honestly. :-/

Here's Dan, and the playlist:

Santana – Stormy

Humble Pie – Stone Cold Fever

Brewer & Shipley – Tarkio Road

Frankie & The Knockouts – Sweetheart

Tony Carey – The First Day Of Summer

The Doors – The Wasp

Dirty Tricks – Too Much Wine

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

Bad English – When I See You Smile

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – A Woman In Love

Nazareth – Another Year

Touch – Black Star

Neil Young – Tell Me Why

Jefferson Starship – Can't Find Love

Les Dudek – City Magic

Journey – Dixie Highway

Bad Company – Electric Land

The Marshall Tucker Band – Fly Like An Eagle

Toto – Girl Goodbye

Shooting Star – Hollywood

Taxxi – I'm Leaving

The Blue Őyster Cult – In Thee

Eric Burdon – Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood / Nina's School

Bruce Springsteen – Kitty's Back

The Who – Magic Bus

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Restless

Rush – Roll The Bones

Eddie Money – Peace In Our Time

Wishbone Ash – Phoenix

The Rolling Stones – She's A Rainbow

Cream – Strange Brew

Novo Combo – Tattoo

David Bowie – Jean Genie

Dan Fogelberg – There's A Place In The World For A Gambler

Michael Fennelly – Touch My Soul

Steel Breeze – You Don't Want Me Anymore

Loverboy – When It's Over

Jefferson Airplane -- Volunteers

I had only two bartenders this week – oopses, sorry, occupational therapists: Jess and Leah at Crabby Joe's Bar and Grill – oopses, again, i meant the clinic. They did a good job, though, telling me what albums to play. Here's the list of what wound up under the laser here at Spriggs Towers:

Jackson Browne – Lives In The Balance

Court Yard Hounds – Court Yard Hounds

Yes – Talk

Talking Heads – Fear Of Music

The Kinks – Sleepwalker

The Pointer Sisters – The Best Of The Pointer Sisters

Maddy Prior – Arthur The King

10,000 Maniacs – In My Tribe

Carbon Leaf – Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat

Amazing Blondel – Blondel

Highly Strung – When The Winds Begin To Sing

The Rolling Stones – Their Satanic Majesties Request

Mama's Pride – Mama's Pride

Rory Gallagher – Tattoo

Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour

James Brown – The CD Of JB

Art Garfunkel – Angel Clare

The Pointer Sisters – Jump: The Best Of The Pointer Sisters

Mark Hollis – Mark Hollis

Ashley Hutchings et al. -- Morris On

Fairport Convention – Shuffle And Go

Nilsson – The Point

Buddy Guy – Feels Like Rain

James Taylor – James Taylor

Richard Thompson – Dream Attic

Steely Dan – Countdown To Ecstasy

Jane Siberry – The Walking

Alice Cooper – Killer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Trilogy

The Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds Of Fire

Dick Gaughan – Gaughan

ABBA – Gold: Greatest Hits

Elton John – Diamonds